Short carefully written paragaph

So I decided to try some academic writing, you know, 'cause that's a blast, right? Anyways, I wrote one short paragraph that explains one reason why I think a hand-written letter is more human than a printed letter or an email. Obviously, it's meant to be a piece of an entire essay on the subject, but just observe this piece and maybe you'll learn a little bit about how my writing process works (as if my writing process were interesting, I know). Lets see how well you understand it. Okay, here we go.


The first reason a hand-written letter is more human than an email or a printed letter is that the writer uses a more direct medium to copy the message from his or her brain. A message written on a computer has to pass through several mediums before it comes into being. First it has to be typed on a keyboard, then it has to transfer into the cpu, which processes the input into readable data, which then has to be placed in the ram, a temporary storage facility, this point being where the writer has to save the message, which finally gets it onto hard drive. This process links the message more strongly to the computer, a non-human, which gives the message a non-human quality. A hand-written message, on the other hand, only has to pass through one medium: the pen. This links it much more strongly to its writer, a human, which gives it a human quality.


I know, it sounds kind of machine like around the end there. You know, like academic writing likes to sound sometimes. Hey, at least the teachers like it. Or, do they? I know not at the current moment.

Well, that's that for my blog of the day. Lovely, ain't it? Nice nice nice. Goodbye.